Last month was Inktober,
a similar challenge to make one ink drawing a day during the month of October.
I didn’t find out about that until a week after it began, and I was a little
unclear about the objective – could we combine ink with other media? or were we
to use strictly pen and ink only? – so I decided not to participate. But since
I’ve committed to NaNoDrawMo, I’ve decided to give myself an additional
challenge: Make 50 sketches in ink during
November. (I admit, almost every sketch I make involves ink of some kind, so I
realize that’s not much of an additional challenge. But I’m giving it to myself
anyway.) I’m calling it InkNaNoDrawMo.One more additional challenge: Inspired by Mattias Adolfsson’s Sketchbook Skool lesson, I'm going to try to do some sketches from imagination, even if they’re not exactly "imaginative," like basic trees.

11-1-14 India ink, twig, watercolor, Canson XL 140 lb. paper

Yesterday I had an all-day commitment immediately followed
by an evening commitment, so all sketches were done from my car during breaks
and in a notebook from imagination (surreptitiously with markers while supposedly listening to other people
talk). Today it’s raining, so I sketched our neighbor’s cherry tree through a
window. It had turned bright orange practically overnight.

By the way, Nov. 7 is international Fountain Pen Day. Since I use fountain pens for almost every kind
of writing and sketching all the time, I don’t know what I would do differently
to celebrate except maybe shop at GouletPens.com,
which is having a great special all month – 20 percent off all ink samples – as
well as giveaways. Oops, I guess I shop at Goulet all the time, so that’s not
much different, either. Oh, well! Go shop at Goulet and celebrate Fountain Pen
Day.